Marshall University · West Virginia

Marshall University Merit Aid

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Merit tiers154 automatic on stats

Get merit aid18%First-year students, CDS 2024-2025

Last verifiedJul 2026Analyst HX-AUTO

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The merit-aid verdict at Marshall University

Marshall rewards high-achieving students with competitive merit awards, especially those interested in honors programs.

Who this school is for

Students with strong academic records who want to be part of a vibrant honors community should explore Marshall's merit-based awards. Legacy applicants may find additional pathways to recognition.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $9,618 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Marshall University, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Marshall University, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$4,648
$30,001–$48,000	$4,430
$48,001–$75,000	$6,837
$75,001–$110,000	$11,227
$110,001+	$15,076
All income levels (average)	$7,502

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $9,162
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $20,342
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $7,502

That works out to roughly a 66% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $22,022 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Marshall University is a public school; Scorecard's net price figure covers in-state, Title-IV-aid-recipient payers only — there is no comparable federal figure for out-of-state students.

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 51%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 72%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $23,250 (~$246/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $46,354
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 51%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 43%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Marshall University's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Marshall University's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

Institutional merit aid tiers

Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.

Where you landAutomatic merit aid by ACT compositeEach bar marks the ACT score range that qualifies for the tier.

Board Of Governors Scholarship$4,000

ACT 26SAT 1230 · GPA 3.5

Presidential Scholarship$3,000

ACT 24SAT 1160 · GPA 3.25

A Michael Perry Scholarship$2,500

ACT 22SAT 1100 · GPA 3

Opportunity Grant$2,000

ACT 20SAT 1030 · GPA 3

Not on this ladder: I Alumni Legacy, 2 Alumni Legacy, Society Of Yeager Scholars, Transfer Student Scholarship Tier 1, Transfer Student Scholarship Tier 2, Opportunity, A Michael Perry, Presidential, Athletic Scholarships, Alumni Legacy Scholarship Tier 2, Alumni Legacy Scholarship Tier I — application required, holistic, or scored on a different axis.

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Tier	ACT composite	Award
Board Of Governors Scholarship	26	$4,000
Presidential Scholarship	24	$3,000
A Michael Perry Scholarship	22	$2,500
Opportunity Grant	20	$2,000

Amount not published

I Alumni Legacy

Application

GPA: 3.5
SAT: 1240
ACT: 26

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Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

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2 Alumni Legacy

Society Of Yeager Scholars

Opportunity Grant

Transfer Student Scholarship Tier 1

Transfer Student Scholarship Tier 2

Opportunity

A Michael Perry

Presidential

Presidential Scholarship

A Michael Perry Scholarship

Athletic Scholarships

Board Of Governors Scholarship

Alumni Legacy Scholarship Tier 2

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